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Help In Daily Living
God’s Plans the Best
Our plans are not always God’s plans. He may see that it is best
for us and for His cause to refuse our very best intentions, as He did
in the case of David. But of one thing we may be assured, He will
bless and use in the advancement of His cause those who sincerely
devote themselves and all they have to His glory. If He sees it best
not to grant their desires He will counterbalance the refusal by giving
them tokens of His love and entrusting to them another service.
In His loving care and interest for us, often He who understands
us better than we understand ourselves refuses to permit us selfishly
to seek the gratification of our own ambition. He does not permit us
to pass by the homely but sacred duties that lie next us. Often these
duties afford the very training essential to prepare us for a higher work.
Often our plans fail that God’s plans for us may succeed.
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We are never called upon to make a real sacrifice for God. Many
things He asks us to yield to Him, but in doing this we are but giving
up that which hinders us in the heavenward way. Even when called
upon to surrender those things which in themselves are good, we may
be sure that God is thus working out for us some higher good.
In the future life the mysteries that here have annoyed and dis-
appointed us will be made plain. We shall see that our seemingly
unanswered prayers and disappointed hopes have been among our
greatest blessings.
We are to look upon every duty, however humble, as sacred because
it is a part of God’s service. Our daily prayer should be, “Lord, help
me to do my best. Teach me how to do better work. Give me energy
and cheerfulness. Help me to bring into my service the loving ministry
of the Saviour.”
A Lesson From the Life of Moses
Consider the experience of Moses. The education he received in
Egypt as the king’s grandson and the prospective heir to the throne
was very thorough. Nothing was neglected that was calculated to
make him a wise man, as the Egyptians understood wisdom. He
received the highest civil and military training. He felt that he was
fully prepared for the work of delivering Israel from bondage. But
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